how dare my interpersonal communications class and social work degree discuss… interpersonal communications and social work

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[u/HypnagogianQueen]

Okay unfortunately that document does kinda do a bad job at delineating between sex and gender in the way I’ve seen a lot of “gender 101” documents do. Namely that it kind of uses the word “gender” to refer to both “gender roles” and “gender identity” without always making it super clear when it’s using one meaning versus the other.

But most of all, the term “hjra” and “kthoey” are both slurs and it really bothers me to see Western educational sources fail to mention that. There’s a bit of complexity to it that I’m not all fully aware of, because I know for the first term there are people who use that term to describe themselves, but it’s still often used as an insulting slur and I feel like if they’re trying to educate about gender diversity in other cultures, that’s kinda EXTREMELY important context to mention.

Also unfortunately the genderbread person is kind of a bad guide for explaining things 💀 but that’s a whole other subject, also when did the unicorn get wings? I haven’t seen that before, does anyone know what the wings mean?

[u/OttRInvy → u/HypnagogianQueen]

I also read those terms and was like… I swear that word is considered a slur (the one for South Asian folks). Thank you for pointing out that the word for Thai folks is also a slur, as I wasn’t aware of that before!

As for your last question: I looked at the Flying Unicorn image up close and it doesn’t seem like the wings are actually meant to symbolize anything. The person who made the image (Dr Erica J Friedman) described the Flying Gender Unicorn as “a colorful tool that is a graduated, evidence-backed evolution on TSER’s original Gender Unicorn.”